Chesapeake Terrace Elementary

Chesapeake Terrace Elementary operates as a modestly sized primary school in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 345 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 28% leaner than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Baltimore County Public Schools comprises 177 schools with combined enrollment of 110,872 students; Chesapeake Terrace Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Chesapeake Terrace Elementary records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

On the resource side, Chesapeake Terrace Elementary records 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Chesapeake Terrace Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Baltimore County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Chesapeake Terrace Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.4%; this one delivers 46.6%.

Around the school, Baltimore County reports that median household income runs about $91,768, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Chesapeake Terrace Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

The closest other public school is Sparrows Point Middle, roughly 1.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chesapeake Terrace Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chesapeake Terrace Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 33.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 6%: 326 students in 2018 compared to 345 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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